Re: Kinky Jewish Music

[Reuben Radding <rrad...>]

Actually, according to James Yaffe's THE AMERICAN JEWS, the slang term
"kike" was coined by Jews to refer to new Russian jewish immigrants to
America. Supposedly the term comes from the fact that so many  of their
names ended in "ki."

Not saying it shouldn't be considered offensive or potentially so, just
thought it was interesting.

-Reuben Radding
rrad (at) drizzle(dot)com

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Mark H. David wrote:

> >is as offensive as ... "Yid".I am sometimes quite surprised by the
> 
> The Yiddish/Yeshivish/Yinglish word for Jew is offensive?  Huh?  There are
> plenty of people using this who don't mean any offense, and probably a lot
> with shades of meaning well shy of the word "kike".
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 

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